Whereas selling their new Netflix movie, The Electrical Slate, administrators Joe and Anthony Russo took a second to debate a attainable sequel to their divisive motion movie, The Grey Man, with Ryan Gosling.
In an interview with The Playlist, the Russo Brothers spoke briefly a few sequel to the film, which starred Gosling and Chris Evans. The Grey Man debuted on Netflix in July 2022 to blended reactions and work on a sequel stalled out. Plus, the directing duo are pretty busy for the following couple of years as they work on Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. Nonetheless, Anthony did trace {that a} sequel might occur someday:
“There’s nonetheless curiosity, yeah. There’s curiosity, [it’s] simply the provision points between Joe and I and Mr. Gosling and and many others.”
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The Grey Man relies on Mark Greaney’s novel of the identical title and follows a extremely expert CIA agent (Gosling) who uncovers darkish secrets and techniques inside the company. Quickly, his psychopathic former colleague (Evans) places a bounty on his head. There was plenty of hype main as much as the debut of the film, but it surely didn’t dwell as much as it.
The movie’s crucial and viewers scores on Rotten Tomatoes are at odds with one another; the critics gave it a forty five% score, but audiences liked it, giving it a really optimistic 90%. Netflix and the Russo Brothers had hoped to show the movie right into a franchise, however the blended response appeared to place a sequel on maintain.
Final yr, Joe stated they have been engaged on concepts for The Grey Man 2, however the two have a busy movie improvement slate:
“We’re growing ideas we predict are the suitable course to take the character in and so, we’re engaged on that in the mean time. I imply, you are juggling like 14 issues on the similar time so you must apportion your time accurately to every one among them.”
The Russo Brothers Stay Very Busy
Following the discharge of Avengers: Endgame, the Russo Brothers fashioned their very own manufacturing firm, AGBO, and have directed or produced a number of hit films. With The Electrical Slate, which stars Millie Bobbie Brown (Stranger Issues) and Chris Pratt, debuting on Netflix on Mar. 14, the Russo Bros. are about to start manufacturing on Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. The duo defined why they determined to return to the MCU, with Joe telling The Playlist, “The factor that introduced us again [was] an thought for a narrative the place we went, ‘That’s a very, actually fascinating story to inform.'”
However a return to the world of the Avengers is not the one main challenge they’re engaged on. Amongst their full slate of upcoming movies and exhibits is the third movie within the profitable Extraction sequence, which stars Marvel alum Chris Hemsworth, plus a TV spinoff starring Omar Sy.
Different movies and exhibits in improvement embrace a brand new season of Citadel, a sequence primarily based on the Quantum and Woody comedian guide, a live-action model of Disney’s Hercules with Man Ritchie directing, a brand new Thomas Crown Affair, and several other extra exhibits and flicks. Understand that producers and administrators usually have a number of initiatives being developed on the similar time, however not all transfer ahead.
Supply: The Playlist